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A good third driver could pay dividends with car setup for each race.
My gut feeling is they could probably push a bit harder.
Viges I doubt the problem with our drivers is not pushing enough!!. Looking at the 'sawing steering wheel action' our drivers need to relax just a little to let the car settle into corners.
This article from F1Racing.net is partly about the problem that Ferrari also have with increasing laptimes and staying behind their qualifying-times. The finger is pointed at Bridgestone.
Todt admits Ferrari has gone backwards It hasn't quite got to crisis point, but Ferrari team principal Jean Todt was painfully aware that his team has recently taken a step backwards when he spoke after the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on Sunday, the second race in an Anglo-Franco double-header. Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello had finished sixth and seventh at Silverstone - although Michael had at least been on the podium a week earlier in France.
"Clearly, we had a big drop in performance during the race today because we were missing grip," explained Todt, " and if you take a few races ago, it's our competitors who had a drop in performance during the race, and we were very strong."
As to the chances of reviving past performances and challenging at the front, Todt added "so if we are able to find the right mixture and do a better job, it's possible."
Todt explained how things had got progressively worse during the weekend. "It was an unpleasant surprise, but we were facing the same situation as one week ago. It was about the same, not worse. If you take the quickest lap time during the race, last week, this week, if you see what has happened on Friday when we were very competitive , then Saturday struggling a bit more, and then Sunday during the race struggling much more.
"Since a few races, we have moved backwards. Again, if you see the lap times during the race, very often this year we did the quickest lap time or very close to the quickest. At Magny Cours we were 1.3s off, here we were 1.2s behind the quickest time. Our competitors managed to do the quickest time on the last lap. After the 20th lap, we struggled more and more, so we went backwards."
Todt explained "we mainly lack grip. It's very difficult to judge clearly for us where it comes from. It's not just the aerodynamics, because if it was only the aerodynamics, we would never be able to do a quick time, like we did on Friday. Then we are with the others, same level of fuel, and we are at the same speed. And then we dropped back. But for the other teams, it's easier to identify where the problem is, because there are several teams in the same situation. With all respect to Jordan and Minardi, it's very difficult for us to have a good comparison with them. So for that reason, it's up to us, together with Bridgestone to try to get the best analysis as possible."
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Looking at the 'sawing steering wheel action' our drivers need to relax just a little to let the car settle into corners.